EA, now posing as you

[Pegghead]

DRM, online passes, ignoring my suggestions of a Sims/Dead Space hyrbid, EA's actions are proving pretty unpopular nowadays.

Last night however, a message I received from a friend over Xbox Live proves to me that we can now add "Farmville tactics" to that list.

Spoiler: Hearty handshake to whoever can tell which game I was playing

Now let's be honest here, it's safe to assume my friend didn't write that message. But can anyone tell me more about this? Is there a little message that pops up with the SSX demo asking if users want to voluntarily send the message? Are people who download not told that a message will be sent in their name to others? Does EA have even more control over a person's profile than this? Just curious is all.

 

[MRMIdAS2k]

Not received anything like that from my SSX playing friends, so I'd assume it's an opt-in thing.

 

[Pegghead]

Not received anything like that from my SSX playing friends, so I'd assume it's an opt-in thing.

Interesting. I did a little snooping and it seems you can unlock a character if you send the demo to a friend, but nothing on sending actual messages in their name.

 

[Dandark]

I assume they have a thing for sending that message. If I remember rightly some other games had a option you can take to automatically send a message to friends. Usaully it was used for high scores, the message would read as "On ____ game I just scored OVER 9000!!!!, can you beat it?".

Sounds like EA have just been using those as advertising. Yet another thing to dislike them over but not that big a deal.

 

[ElPatron]

So do you have to check it or uncheck it? As in, is it the default option we must seek and disable or we can only opt-in if we really want to?

Also, what does the "there is nothing wrong with Origin having my personal information, I have done nothing illegal" crowd have to say about this?

If this starts happening on facebook, let it be known that I called it.